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|And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

|And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

|The devil said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, turn this stone into bread."

|The devil said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, turn this stone into bread."

|"command ... it be made ..." seems like overkill, or does it have additional meaning?

|"command ... it be made ..." seems like overkill, or does it have additional meaning? - Indeed, it has: it stresses the power of the Lord's word: He doesn't perform only party tricks, he has the ''command'' over the whole world. The Greek original uses the very basic word λέγω (speak) for this, and it reminds us of John 1:1.: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

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